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  2. Killing of Molly Bish - Wikipedia

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    In the summer of 2000, 16-year-old Molly Anne Bish (born August 2, 1983) began working as a lifeguard at Comins Pond in Warren, Massachusetts. [4] On June 26, the day before her disappearance, her mother, Magi, saw a mustached man in a white car parked in the lot of the beach where Bish's lifeguard post was located. [5]

  3. Bish - Wikipedia

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    St. Joseph's Patrician College (slang "The Bish"), a secondary school in Ireland Bishōnen or "Bish", a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" Bishōjo or "Bish", a Japanese term used to refer to young and pretty girls

  4. Image schema - Wikipedia

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    In case study two of his book Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, Lakoff re-presented the analysis of the English word over done by Claudia Brugman in her (1981) master's thesis. Similar to the analysis of out given by Johnson, Lakoff argued that there were six basic spatial schemas for the English word over .

  5. Bitch (slang) - Wikipedia

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    This use of the word bitch shows women reappropriating the meaning to be a more positive and empowering word for women. A condom branded by rap signer Lady Bitch Ray. The increased usage of the word bitch casually or in a friendly way by women has been characterized by Sherryl Kleynman as a result of the absorption of sexist culture by women. [2]

  6. Aconitum - Wikipedia

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    The roots of A. ferox supply the Nepalese poison called bikh, bish, or nabee. It contains large quantities of the alkaloid pseudaconitine, which is a deadly poison. The root of A. luridum, of the Himalaya, is said to be as poisonous as that of A. ferox or A. napellus. [4] Several species of Aconitum have been used as arrow poisons.

  7. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Their findings were similar, but not identical, to the findings of the OEC analysis. According to The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up about half of all written English. [3]

  8. Miscue analysis - Wikipedia

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    When students look at pictures as a reference, a strategy that is encouraged by whole language proponents, they will sometimes stop at the unknown word, look at the picture or consider the overall meaning of the sentence, then say a word that makes sense in context, rather than use graphophonemic clues. With such an approach, a child may read ...

  9. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    Unless otherwise specified, Words in English from Amerindian Languages is among the sources used for each etymology. A number of words from Quechua have entered English, mostly via Spanish, adopting Hispanicized spellings. Ayahuasca (definition) from aya "corpse" and waska "rope", via Spanish ayahuasca Cachua (definition) from qhachwa ...